Fred Lewis Pattee was a literary critic and the first-ever professor of American literature. In this work, published in 1915, he gives an account of the developments in ...

Fred Lewis Pattee was a literary critic and the first-ever professor of American literature. In this work, published in 1915, he gives an account of the developments in ...

We are beginning to realize that the Civil War marks a dividing line in American history as sharp and definitive as that burned across French history by the Revolution. That ...

A History of American Literature Since 1870 It has been our object to determine this new period and to study its distinguishing characteristics. We have divided the literary ...